shuffleboard2js further lowers the barrier of entry for teams that want to build a custom HTML/Javascript dashboard by providing a Shuffleboard <https://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/currentCS/m/shuffleboard/l/814689-tour-of-shuffleboard> like interface built on top of pynetworktables2js <https://github.com/robotpy/pynetworktables2js>.
Lots of students and mentors know how to create simple web pages to display content, and there's lots of resources out there for creating dynamic content for webpages that use javascript. There is a lot of visually appealing content that others have created using web technologies -- why not leverage those resources to make something cool to control your robot?
Documentation can be found at http://shuffleboard2js.readthedocs.org/
Make sure to install python 3 on your computer, and on Windows you can execute::
py -3 -m pip install shuffleboard2jsOn Linux/OSX you can execute::
pip install shuffleboard2jsYou can run shuffleboard2js using the following command::
python3 -m shuffleboard2jsOr on Windows::
py -3 -m shuffleboard2jsThis will start a server which will serve from the current directory. You can create your custom widgets in the shuffleboard2js/widgets folder, which will automatically be created in the directory you ran shuffleboard2js.
You will want to also pass either the --robot or --team switch::
py -3 -m shuffleboard2js --robot roborio-XXXX-frc.local
py -3 -m shuffleboard2js --team XXXXDashboard mode currently doesn't work, as the underlying support in pynetworktables hasn't been implemented yet for the newer FRC Driver Station.